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Ohhh ya'll the babies are coming! Just got my email. No backing out i'm dedicated to them now. Bright side hubs will be outta here by 5am tomorrow so the coast is clear! Crappy side my pick up dude is mia so I might have to uber to the post office. That should be interesting.:)
 
apryl29 said:
Ended up taking the tiny human to the er last night b/c her belly button incision was oozing and looked infected. I was going to wait to take her to her ped today, but she was upset and scared so I didn't want to wait. They gave her a script for bactroban and it seems to be helping. Last night she wanted me to call her ped this am and make an appt anyway, but this am she said it felt better and I didn't need to call. We'll see what she thinks when I go home for lunch. Her other 3 incisions look good and I cleaned out some nasty stuff from her belly button so hopefully it'll get better.

Loki is full on done w/ motherhood. She's starting to lay again. I got an egg from Ash on Saturday too so now I'm back to 9ish eggs a day. Yesterday Loki kept chasing and biting the babies. It's like nice sweet stepmom, then one day she turns on them and keeps torturing them. Saturday night Loki rushed 2 of the babies into the back corner of the big nesting box and the just stuck there like glue. I petted them, she was so mean. IDK if she was putting them to bed or just trying to get rid of them and they were hiding from her. When I opened the door yesterday for everyone to range the babies refused to come outside. I feel so bad for them. It's like they're afraid.
I did put some grapes in the little kiddie pool. At first there was too much water and I almost drowned Klaus, but after I drained some out they caught on pretty quickly.

I finally got the grass mowed down where they dust so they're happy to be able to get into there now. I need to cut back some branches of the pine trees. I don't want to take away all the shade from there, but I would like to stop getting stabbed in the head by dead branches and covered in tree sap.

AND in super awesome news!!! I got a message back from someone on 23andme and they're going to see if they can figure out where exactly our paths cross (his father is my 3rd cousin) so I'm hopeful that I might finally figure out who my ggpa's parents are.
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That is awesome news about the 23andme connection.

Bactroban is wicked strong, so it should help if the infection is localized to the exterior.
Maybe keep track of her temperature for a few days to make sure there’s nothing brewing in the inside.
 
I can't figure out whether my BCM cockerel is turning out to be a tater, or if he is just being overly friendly. He is one that always follows me around, comes sprinting to the scratch bin when he hears me take the lid off, will eat from my hand, even lets me scratch his chest. The other day I bent down to scratch his chest and he snapped at me. So I've been cautious since then.

Then a couple days later, he came sprinting at me, and puffed up, I think he was trying to be amorous! But I stopped him in his tracks. Yesterday hubby said "that big black rooster just charged me"... I explained what I thought was going on with him, I think he is just assertive, not aggressive. But now I'm keeping an eye on him. I won't keep a rooster that worries me at all, so let's please hope that I'm right about him. He's only 16 weeks old, and growing out pretty nicely.
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He's beautiful! Negan was like that, when he got snappy I quit touching him. In a few months he started coming back himself wanting to be petted so I started back. I think there is just a window of "don't touch me mom!" That happens. He hasn't bitten since, and iv'e had to touch him alot. Early his son is getting into the time of snaps too he's about the right age 16ish weeks. Ohh almost forgot, with Negan after the first snap I did have about a week of him trying to bite my ankle to make sweet amore to my feet. I blew his mind, i put on shoes and he lost intrest.:)
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I can't figure out whether my BCM cockerel is turning out to be a tater, or if he is just being overly friendly. He is one that always follows me around, comes sprinting to the scratch bin when he hears me take the lid off, will eat from my hand, even lets me scratch his chest. The other day I bent down to scratch his chest and he snapped at me. So I've been cautious since then.

Then a couple days later, he came sprinting at me, and puffed up, I think he was trying to be amorous! But I stopped him in his tracks. Yesterday hubby said "that big black rooster just charged me"... I explained what I thought was going on with him, I think he is just assertive, not aggressive. But now I'm keeping an eye on him. I won't keep a rooster that worries me at all, so let's please hope that I'm right about him. He's only 16 weeks old, and growing out pretty nicely.
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Chickassan said:
He's beautiful! Negan was like that, when he got snappy I quit touching him. In a few months he started coming back himself wanting to be petted so I started back. I think there is just a window of "don't touch me mom!" That happens. He hasn't bitten since, and iv'e had to touch him alot. Early his son is getting into the time of snaps too he's about the right age 16ish weeks. :)
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Thanks, that makes me feel better. :)
 
@apryl29 Turkeys pull each other's snoods as well as chest butt like chickens, but unlike chickens when one submits the dominant birds won't relent until there's been an ample pulling of the snood. The birds playing ring around the rosy, who ever is in front has submitted but not yet been given the required snood pull and the other two are chasing to carry out the mission. Any number of things can start the game at any given moment.
 
Ample pulling of the snood...that sounds sooo dirty.:lau
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@apryl29 Turkeys pull each other's snoods as well as chest butt like chickens, but unlike chickens when one submits the dominant birds won't relent until there's been an ample pulling of the snood. The birds playing ring around the rosy, who ever is in front has submitted but not yet been given the required snood pull and the other two are chasing to carry out the mission. Any number of things can start the game at any given moment.
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rjohns39 said:
@apryl29 Turkeys pull each other's snoods as well as chest butt like chickens, but unlike chickens when one submits the dominant birds won't relent until there's been an ample pulling of the snood. The birds playing ring around the rosy, who ever is in front has submitted but not yet been given the required snood pull and the other two are chasing to carry out the mission. Any number of things can start the game at any given moment.
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This sounds hilarious...and slightly terrifying as I picture getting run over by rampaging, snood obsessed giant poultry.

Random question inspired by talk of odd poultry habits: are all peahens tater holes? One of my neighbor's peahens loves to hang out in my backyard. I don't really mind; the people are great neighbors and the bird is really pretty. But it is such a jerk to my chickens! I have to shoo it out of the yard during free range time or it will endlessly pursue my chickens and try to bite them. It also hangs out near the run and tries to bit them through the fence. Why? WhyWhyWhy??? There is plenty of room for all but it is obsessed with chook-chasing :he And I know its owners have chickens too, so it is not like it has never seen one before. Such. A. Tater!

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